This Civil War
Harper's Weekly newspaper describes a number of important events of the war.
It includes eye-witness illustrations of the events, and important news of
the day. It also has first edition coverage of the Battle of Bull Run.

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THE DEATH OF GENERAL
GARNETT.

ON
page 481 we publish an
illustration of the battle in which the late General Garnett, of the Rebel army,
lost his life. He had evacuated his camp at
Laurel Hill
during the night of the 11th. General Morris's column commenced the pursuit the
next afternoon. After a terrible forced march through rain and mud, over Laurel
Mountain, our advance came upon the enemy at Carrick's Ford,

eight miles south of St. George,
Tucker County. The rebels drew up in line of battle, and poured in a raking
volley on the right of our column—the Ohio Fourteenth—which returned a hot fire,
lasting twenty minutes, when Colonel Dumont's Indiana Seventh made a charge upon
their battery. They broke and ran, crossing the Ford toward St. George. General
Robert S. Garnett, while attempting to rally his flying men, was struck by a
ball which passed through his spine and out at the right breast. He fell dead on
the sand. Colonel

Dumont continued the chase two
miles and bivouacked. The rest bivouacked on the battleground.

CORRESPONDENCE.

THE NAVAL BATTERY AT VERA
CRUZ.

PHILADELPHIA, July 15,1861. To
the Editor of Harper's Weekly :

DEAR SIR—In your issue of the
20th I see you state that the men of General Patterson's command manned the
Naval Battery that did so much execution at Vera Cruz. The writer of the above
has been misinformed, as the guns were manned by the sailors of the ships from
which the guns were

taken. There were five guns, the
whole under the command of Lieutenant Harry Ingersoll, U.S.N. By noticing the
above you will but do justice to the sailors who worked the guns, and oblige one
who served at the Raritan's gun as a blue jacket.

Respectfully, WILLIAM H. STELL.

Our information with regard to
the working of the guns of the Naval Battery at Vera Cruz came from a very high
source ; but we will let our correspondent tell his story in his own way.
General Patterson's recent performance has not justified the expectations of his
friends, and but few will regret his retirement to private life. Had be followed
Johnson up, the affair at Bull's Run might have terminated very differently.—ED.
Harper's Weekly.

PRESENTATION OF A FLAG TO THE
WEBSTER REGIMENT, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, BY HON. EDWARD EVERETT, ON BEHALF OF
THE LADIES OF BOSTON. [SEE PAGE 487.]

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